Bermuda's Labor Party Ends Conservative Rule

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November 10, 1998

HAMILTON, Bermuda - The black-supported Labor Party swept to victory for the first time in general elections Monday, an outcome that reflected racial tension in Bermuda and ended the conservatives' 30-year rule. Preliminary results gave 26 of the 40 Parliament seats to the Bermuda Labor Party and the rest to former Premier Pamela Gordon's United Bermuda party. Labor had held 18 seats in the outgoing government. Labor Party leader Jennifer Smith, who will become the new premier, said Bermudians had met their ``date with destiny.''